Welcome to English Language Arts and Reading!
3rd period: 9:24-10:09
Conference: 10:11-10:56
5th period: 10:58-11:43
Conference: 10:11-10:56
5th period: 10:58-11:43
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Materials:
2 Composition Notebooks (100 pages each)
2 dividers labeled English and Reading for Middle School All-Subjects binder
pencils, pens, colored pencils, erasers, wide-ruled paper
2 dividers labeled English and Reading for Middle School All-Subjects binder
pencils, pens, colored pencils, erasers, wide-ruled paper
Classroom Rules
1. Be on time.
2. Be prepared.
3. Be positive.
4. Be respectful of others.
Discipline yourself so others don't have to do it.
2. Be prepared.
3. Be positive.
4. Be respectful of others.
Discipline yourself so others don't have to do it.
Reading Logs
Reading logs are kept in order to reinforce the importance of reading done at home on a daily basis. Students are expected to read for at least two hours a week. We suggest this be done nightly, but we have students who do all their home reading over the weekend. We realize family and extra-curricular activities may not allow for nightly reading. More than two hours is fantastic, but not required. Reading Logs are due on Fridays!
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Expository Writing/Personal Narrative Writing
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Unit 3: Fiction & Sensory Language/Culture & History (Myths, Epic Tales)
Reading Focus:
Students will understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text, about how the structure and elements of fiction, about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.
Writing Focus:
Students will use the elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose written text. Students will write an imaginative story to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas.
Big Idea:
An author can share ideas and/or feelings by using plot development, characterization, point of view, and sensory language. Oral traditions have been passed on for thousands of years because of their enduring wisdom about humanity. Oral traditions and myths are influenced by culture and setting. Culture and historically based stories are often written to provide the reader with insight into the history morals and cultures of a group of people and specific time period.
Spiraled Genre:
Expository text may be spiraled in by setting, topic, conflict, or theme to supplement the fiction text read in class. Figure 19F is used to make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play) and provide textual evidence.
Students will understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text, about how the structure and elements of fiction, about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.
Writing Focus:
Students will use the elements of the writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing) to compose written text. Students will write an imaginative story to express their ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, and ideas.
Big Idea:
An author can share ideas and/or feelings by using plot development, characterization, point of view, and sensory language. Oral traditions have been passed on for thousands of years because of their enduring wisdom about humanity. Oral traditions and myths are influenced by culture and setting. Culture and historically based stories are often written to provide the reader with insight into the history morals and cultures of a group of people and specific time period.
Spiraled Genre:
Expository text may be spiraled in by setting, topic, conflict, or theme to supplement the fiction text read in class. Figure 19F is used to make connections between and across texts, including other media (e.g., film, play) and provide textual evidence.
Freytag's Pyramid
Gustav Freytag was a Nineteenth Century German novelist who saw common patterns in the plots of stories and novels and developed a diagram to analyze them. He diagrammed a story's plot using a pyramid like the one shown.